Word Finder - denounces

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To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

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To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

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to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

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To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

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to denounce a confederate in crime

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To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

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to denounce war; to denounce punishment

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To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

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To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

The well-meaning but weak king Zedekiah he denounces with bitter scorn as a perjured traitor (xvii).

Thus he praises Grosseteste, while he denounces Grosseteste's scheme of monastic reform.

He directs this spirit of revolt also against the sources of his own inspiration; he turns bitterly against Wagner, whose intimate friend and enthusiastic admirer he had been, and denounces him as the musician of decadent emotionalism; he rejects his "educator" Schopenhauer's pessimism, and transforms his will to live into a "Will to Power."

It denounces both indiscriminate alms-giving and the national work-shops proposed by Sir Humphrey Mackworth.

He has been classed with Arians, but he endorses in his own way the homoousian formula, and denounces Arius as " Christi gloriae incapacissimus."

In his general teaching Chrysostom elevates the ascetic element in religion, and in his homilies he inculcates the need of personal acquaintance with the Scriptures, and denounces ignorance of them as the source of all heresy.

Gross exaggerations, such as those in which Valerius Antias indulged, he roundly denounces, and with equal plainness of speech he condemns the family vanity which had so constantly corrupted and distorted the truth.

Sometimes, indeed, he denounces fiercely enough the arts and pretensions of priests; but no one has embodied with such profound spiritual insight some of the most vital moments of the Christian story.

Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness.

Islam Denounces Terrorism - a book which details exactly how un Islamic terrorism really is.

When Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary denounces the conception of central dogmas, what they desire to exclude as uncatholic is the belief that dogmas lying upon the circumference may be questioned or perhaps denied.'